Dr. Avi Astor is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) where he teaches Sociology of Religion, Religion and Global Politics and Sociology of Culture.

 

He received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Michigan in 2011. Before joining B-CURE, he was a postdoctoral fellow with the research group, GRITIM, at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and then with the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University. He has won several grants such as the Alliance of 4 Universities (UPF, 2011-2013), the Jonathan Shapira Fellowship (Tel Aviv, 2013-2014) and the Ramón i Cajal (UAB, 2014-2019). He has directed projects funded by the European Union, the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, and the Directorate General of Religious Affairs of the Generalitat de Catalunya.

 

Dr. Astor has written on a variety of topics related to religion, culture, and social and technological transformations. He is the author of Rebuilding Islam in Contemporary Spain: The Politics of Mosque Establishment, 1976-2013 (Sussex Academic Press, 2017). His research has also appeared in prestigious journals such as Theory and Society, the International Migration Review, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, the American Journal of Cultural Sociology, Qualitative Sociology, and the International Journal for Urban and Regional Research.